We, Beasts

May 2012
148 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-62-2
$19.00

**Winner of the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry from the Quebec Writers' Federation**

With undeniable verve, Oana Avasilichioaei upends expectations of literature and poetry in this fascinating collection. We, Beasts is a fairy tale; a book within a book; a collection of verse; a mediation on language, real and imagined and a sly social commentary all in one.

Oana Avasilichioaei's beasts (Stephen Collis, Jacket2, 18/07/2012)
"The wilderness we are returned to here is the one formed by language on the edge of wildernesses long gone—the liminal space of fairy and folk tale, where we stare back at the animals we try to deceive ourselves we no longer are. Voice drifts into voice, language into and out of language."

POETRY: A dozen of the best published in 2012 (Jonathan Ball, Winnipeg Free Press, 22/12/2012)
"Avasilichioaei's poems wind around a core of Grimm-esque fable, as she presses words into uncommon functions. In this book's dark core 'the muse, stuck in a bone, is gnawing her way out.'"

SPELLES (Oana Avasilichioaei, Bathhouse Vol 8.2, 13/06/2012)
Click to listen to Oana Avasilichioaei read from "SPELLES" and to check out a sample of the text.